"The Badaga language, widely believed to be a dialect of Kannada, was the language of communication of ancient South Dravidians and shares similarities with the local Alu Kurumba tongue," said ...

Udhagamandalam: The Nelikolu Charitable Trust, which conducts research in the Badaga language, tradition and culture, has written to chief minister M K Stalin, pointing out that Badaga, considered one ...

The Nelikolu Charitable Trust, which has been spearheading a campaign to document the language of the Badagas -- the single largest ethnolinguistic group residing in the Nilgiris, has initiated steps ...

OOTY: A group of Badaga youth in Nilgiris (Badagas form the the largest ethnic community in Nilgiris) formed a forum christened as 'Badugu Budding House (BBH)' to produce, promote and encourage short ...

When this reporter met Jens Martin Zickgraf he was astonished to find himself greeted in the Badaga language, “Ollangithaya? (Are you fine?)” by the German. But it was no wonder for Zickgraf has been ...